Global justice and territory / Cara Nine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nine, Cara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territory, National.

Self-determination, National.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historical injustice and global inequality are basic problems embedded in territorial rights. In 'Global Justice and Territory' Cara Nine advances a general theory of territorial rights adapting a theoretical framework from natural law theory to ground all territorial claims.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Need for a Theory of Territorial Rights; Overview of the Book; 1. Territorial Rights; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 What-The Incidents of Territorial Rights; 1.3 What-Ownership Rights versus Territorial Rights; 1.4 Who-Collectives; 1.5 Who-Towards a Theory of Collective Rights to Territory; 1.6 Why-Value; 1.7 Conclusion; 2. Natural Law Theory and the General Right to Territory; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 General versus Particular Rights to Territory; 2.3 Note on the General Right to Territory under Natural Law Theory; 2.4 Method and Analogy

2.5 Human Nature and Universal Values2.6 The Scope of Territorial Rights: Questioning Rights to the Arctic and Underground Resource Rights; 2.7 Conclusion; 3. The People and Self-Determination; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Self-Determination over Territory; 3.3 Jurisdictional Authority and Minimal Standards of Justice; 3.4 The People as an Enduring Collective Entity; 3.5 Statist Self-Determination; 3.6 Democracy, Self-Determination, and the People; 3.7 Nationality and Self-Determination; 3.8 'People' as a Political Community; 3.9 Conclusion; 4. A Lockean Theory of Territory; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 Individualistic Lockean Accounts of Territorial Rights4.3 Collectivistic Lockean Theory of Territorial Rights; 4.4 Conclusion; 5. Arbitrariness and Territorial Borders; 5.1 The Moral Arbitrariness Argument; 5.2 Unjustly Formed Borders; 5.3 Contingency, Luck, and Moral Arbitrariness; 5.4 Against the Moral Arbitrariness of Territorial Borders: Conditions of a Hypothetical Social Contract; 5.5 Conclusion; 6. Resource Rights; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Resource Rights: Concept; 6.3 Resource Rights: Theory; 6.4 Ownership; 6.5 Conclusion; 7. Global Justice and Territory

7.1 The Scope of Distributive Justice7.2 Limiting Scope to the Domestic Sphere; 7.3 Cosmopolitan Arguments for the Global Scope of Distributive Justice; 7.4 Common World Ownership and Cosmopolitan Claims; 7.5 Conclusion; 8. The Lockean Proviso and Ecological Refugee States; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Lockean Proviso and Territorial Rights; 8.3 Acquisition versus Current Holding; 8.4 'Downsizing' Current Holdings; 8.5 The Spoilage Proviso, Degrees of Sovereignty, and Rectification; 8.6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 5, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-162827-1

1-280-88003-1

9786613721341

OCLC:

922971280